Today is the biggest day of the year for us — the day that the doors for our Menstruality Leadership Programme open, and our new circle of amazing cyclical trailblazers starts to form.
(You can find out all about Menstruality Leadership Programme here — www.menstrualityleadership.com).
Although we’ve been leading this training for fifteen years now, each year, as new people step up to embrace their cycle as their gateway to leadership, we are amazed to see how the work expresses itself through them.
There are creatives who make menstrual cycle awareness central to their work, like Ruby May, the community catalyst here at Red School. You can hear how Ruby’s cycle has guided her as a community builder in her Menstruality podcast episode here.
There are artists, writers and poets, who allow their intimacy with their cycles to inspire profoundly beautiful creative expression — like Stephanie Farrell Moore’s inner-seasons-inspired poetry book, Bleed Between The Lines, and Charlotte Ward’s “Earthbodiment” photography.
There are mothers, nurturers and carers who lean into cyclical wisdom as they hold space (and work their backsides off!) for their families and communities, like Nishma whose cycle awareness nourished her as a young mother.
There are psychotherapists, healers, and bodyworkers who bring great depth to their client work through cycle-inspired insights, like Lisa de Jong’s trauma-informed programmes and Helena Tucker’s ground-breaking PMDD work, which is transforming people’s experiences of their cycles.
There are business leaders who boldly go where others do not dare, like Zoe Chan who is bringing reusable menstrual products to Hong Kong, and Vianney Leigh who used her own cycle awareness practice to create Period Power Activism (you can hear Vianney talk about how to harness cycle awareness for sustainable activism in her podcast episode here).
As you take in these stories, we invite you to imagine how the power and intelligence of menstruality could influence and guide your life path…
We each have a part to play in the world we want to create. What are you being called to birth, awaken, express? What nudges (loud or subtle) have you been receiving when you bleed or during menopause? What magic wants to weave its way into the world through you?
Whatever your calling, if you long to step up this year into your next level of expression, power, influence and impact, we warmly welcome you to join us for our annual Menstruality Leadership Programme.
The training is a three-month immersive apprenticeship to the cyclical wisdom within you.
It is the only comprehensive training of its kind in the world — exploring and developing the exciting new discipline of Menstruality, a discipline that is set to change the way we approach our wellbeing at all levels of personal and professional development, creative & spiritual life.
What we both most deeply treasure about the programme is that it is an initiation into a wholly new consciousness — one that is organised by the dynamic of your menstrual cycle and your journey from menarche to menopause. One that can —through each and every one of us — transform our world.
Here are some of the words that our graduates shared with us after their training:
“Menstruality is medicine, and the MLP serves up a large dose!”
The Menstruality Leadership Program was utterly transformative. Menstruality is medicine, and the MLP serves up a large dose! The experience I gained through the program provided me with an embodied confidence to bring my work out into the world.
Emma Brinkman, Embodiment Guide and Founder of Ebb & Flow
“A treasured time of community connection”
I am bone-deep grateful to have taken the Menstruality Leadership Programme. I didn't know how much self-knowledge and healing was waiting for me! The program really helped unlock layers of self-insight I didn't even realise I wasn't accessing before. The weekly topics were potent; the exercises were powerful and always revealed such gems of self-discovery; the live calls were a treasured time of community connection paired with deep personal transformation, week after week.
Elizabeth Tidwell, Menstruality Coach and Founder of My Club Red
“The practice that is already within me…”
Every other practice I've ever had or explored spiritually or otherwise has asked or demanded that I'd be more. More still, more strong, more dedicated, more talented, more flexible, more beautiful, more intelligent, more mindful, more. Perpetuating the relentless belief that I will never be enough. Until I became conscious of my cycle and the practice of Menstruality. The practice that is already within me. It asks for nothing, no one to answer or apologise to. No one to try to please. Asking only for my awareness, my curiosity and attention. It gifts me the mystery. Just as I am, nothing more, nothing less.
Laura Geyer, Artist
“Something I have been seeking for years without knowing it”
Admittedly, I'm a bit of a self-help and education junkie. I have spent a significant amount of time in various trainings. The Menstruality Leadership Programme has been undoubtedly the most transformative. Having danced with self criticism my entire life, when I heard Sjanie and Alexandra talk about the inner critic having a sacred role, I knew I needed to explore more. Menstrual cycle awareness as a spiritual practice was something I have been seeking for years without knowing it. In answering that call, I've gained incredible access to my inner wisdom and self care practices and am now empowered to share that with others as well.
Amanda Holden, Chiropractor
